{"id":36268,"date":"2015-06-27T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T15:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=36268"},"modified":"2015-06-28T02:55:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T06:55:05","slug":"asl-western-mass-r-i-both-set-for-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=36268","title":{"rendered":"ASL: Western Mass, R.I. Both Set for Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34751\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Roswess-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34751\" data-attachment-id=\"34751\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=34751\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Roswess-11.png?fit=600%2C416\" data-orig-size=\"600,416\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Roswess-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Roswess-11.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Roswess-11.png?fit=600%2C416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34751\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Roswess-11.png?resize=600%2C416\" alt=\"Photo credit: David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Roswess-11.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Roswess-11.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The local region will be well-represented during Saturday&#8217;s pair of\u00a0ASL semifinal clashes after Western Mass Pro Soccer and the Rhode Island Oceaneers both booked their postseason trips earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Western Mass clinched the ASL table on 37 points (10-1-7), and finished the 2014-15 regular season with a 1-1 draw against Mass United FC last weekend. The Lusitanos will face the Philadelphia Fury on Saturday at Lusitano Stadium in Ludlow, Mass. Kickoff is set for 7:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased with how we finished this season,&#8221; said Western Mass head coach Federico Molinari in a team release. \u201cOur team overcame many obstacles, but we still have more challenges. We are all working to hoist the championship on Jul. 3.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island finished second in the Atlantic Division on 25 points (7-5-4), and earned their postseason berth by beating the Evergreen Diplomats 3-0 on Tuesday. The O&#8217;s will face Icon FC on Saturday at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J. Kickoff is set for 7:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of Saturday&#8217;s semifinal contests will face off in the ASL championship, which will be held on Jul. 3 in New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Mass Pro Soccer and Rhode Island Oceaneers will be playing in separate ASL semifinal contests on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[933],"tags":[625,539,858,892,867],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Roswess-11.png?fit=600%2C416","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36307,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36268\/revisions\/36307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}